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  • Microsoft buys Opera?

    Sure as hell hope this isn't true: Microsoft buys Opera...
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  • #2
    it's not

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    • #3
      The rumor came about after John Dvorak, popular PC technology editor, reviewer, commentary guy that works for PC Magazine, said that MS needs to scrap their ancient IE code and just buy up Opera. His reasoning being that IE is just a jumble of code and modules that MS bought from other companies (typical MS procedure). If MS were to buy Opera they would get what many consider to be the fastest rendering browser, all with unified code and is relatively secure. MS would simply need to tweak it a bit, throw the IE logo on it and bam ... IE 7 without much work.

      That and Opera can spoof being IE already, so it wouldn't be too much of a stretch.

      Article here: http://www.marketwatch.com/news/arch...%26minisite%3D

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      • #4
        Except that Opera has gotten buggier and buggier since version 7. At least Microsoft has found and fixed MOST of the memory leaks in IE, whereas in Opera they get worse and worse with every iteration.

        Not to mention that many MANY sites - useful important ones like Superpages - don't render properly with Opera. Oops!
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        • #5
          Too bad the guy is named the same as one of keyboard layouts, I guess that's the only thing giving him credibility in the eyes of many

          MS would never do something like that - it will be admitting "our product sucks in comparison and we couldn't repair it anymore"

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Gurm
            Except that Opera has gotten buggier and buggier since version 7. At least Microsoft has found and fixed MOST of the memory leaks in IE, whereas in Opera they get worse and worse with every iteration.

            Not to mention that many MANY sites - useful important ones like Superpages - don't render properly with Opera. Oops!
            Yeah, oops... we hired a developer/designer that couldn't do more than click around in Dreamweaver
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            • #7
              you could always unhire him/her
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              • #8
                Originally posted by tjalfe
                you could always unhire him/her
                That was a rhetorical 'we' for starters, but it's been my experience that big companies don't really care about such things when it relates to the web, because to most people it's not readily apparent.
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                • #9
                  JCD was interesting back when he used to write a column for Mac User magazine. Now he's just a blowhard.
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                  • #10
                    Just stick with firefox. I made the switch after 1.5 came out. I admit I became a fan of tabbed browsing with IE 7.0 beta, but that thing is so buggy that I only start it up to see a couple of sites that FF can´t display properly because of proprietary ActiveX code. And for windows update, also. For all other things Firefox just seems to do it the right way and faster than IE.
                    Last edited by Nuno; 25 December 2005, 06:02.

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